The Z1010 is cute, but it is one of the first UMTS sets with associated version 1 issues. It can do a lot but it isn't a full PDA. The Sony Ericsson P900 is a full PDA but it doesn't do UMTS.
I think I ought to be able to go into a store and buy a copy of gimp. In fact, I think there are several Open Source packages which would lend themselves well to being sold seperately from distributions. This would do a lot to raise the visibility of these packages from a consumer perspective.
At least at one time you could get a book about The Gimp which had a CD with it. The CD was a typical open source distribution, so you had to do a typical./configure; make; make install on it, easy but frightening for some people and much harder on Windows. Now there is a windows version of the Gimp, it would be easy to do the same but include a nice, easy to install binary version of the program for 2K/XP. The program effectively becomes 'shrink-wrapped' for those who prefer a box (or in this case, a book).
I doubt it. At least three UK news sources are reporting this including the BBC. This is proposed to be an immunisation at least for children or at least young teens, i.e., just before most addictions start.
About right, a friend was stabbed coming out of a bar. He had a disagreement with a stupid white-trash soldier in a bar and my friend thought it politic to move elsewhere. He left the bar and as soon as he realised he was being followed he was stabbed in the side (near the kidneys). The guy was good, the weapon wasn't seen before hand and absolutely no warning of the attack. My friend survived though, long enough to report the perp to the police.
Oh, I agree 100%. The contrast range to be able to capture stars and surface is way outside that of any normal film. One of the points also made was the regolith has a very reflective property, so if you stand with your back to the sun, and look along the line of the incoming rays, the surface will appear to much brighter.
You don't have to shoot into the sun, but you can certainly have it from left or right. Shooting into the sun can work too, it just depends upon what you are wanting to achieve.
The flash thing is actually an interesting issue. The performer may be well lit but surrounding not, an averaging exposure system will get it wrong. Switching on the flash will often just set the shutter to a fixed value, say a thirtieth of a second and the photo may sometimes work. It is better to have a camera with manual override and a photographer who knows how to use it.
Actually no. However that is the way most people are taught to start photography. Astronauts have to be a lot of other things as well and messing with the settings on a Hassleblad whilst wearing thick gloves is kind of limiting.
It is still quite difficult to get a barebones PC from a major supplier, especially if it is leased. Microsoft get a little anxious as to whether a PC being sold on is sold with a license or is truely barebones. This doesn't affect the individual or small businesses, but they can do monitor larger resellers.
For example, I have an HP sitting beneath my desk where I work at my client's place. It bears an XP Pro License sticker, it even runs XP Pro (not my choice), of course it is running a corporate license instead of the one that it came with.
We also have PCs running Linux. Same deal, they still have their XP license sticker. When the PCs are disposed off, someone will just ghost in XP again and sell it with operating system.
In other words, a fairly big overcount of XP licenses. Dell's program still isn't that widely known and people are concerned about their ability to resell PCs.
"the purchaser of the PAL game is told in clear language that it is not designed to be played on a non-PAL machine. There is no support for the suggestion of licence or authorisation."
This is interesting phraseology because it simply states that it is not supported, not that it is forbidden. Under anglo-saxon law, traditionally what is not explicitly forbidden tends to be permissable.
I have had full access to the source code of several operating systems in the past. Sure, I learned all kinds of things from them, like how to design big systems that work and are maintainable. Specific code, well not really.
The risk tends to be overstated. If I had *legal* access to the XP codebase and I was still developing, I *would* look.
Linksys did the goodness for the WAP54 by releasing all GPLed components in source and binaries for the bits that aren't such as the Broadcomm drivers. Sveasoft are releasing the firmware on a restricted basis and are attempting to control redistribution. They are also trying to control the distribution of the source code of elements that they did not write. If you pass software to a third party, that is release - whether or not Sveasoft believe so.
If they were honest (it seems they are not), they would fully release all GPL'ed code including their modifications w/o restrictions.
They may maintain their business model by offerring support or by controlling access to code that they have wholly originated. If they do not allow redistribution, they are breaking the GPL. I do agree that whilst $49 is pushing it for the source code, they can not block you from being placed on your favourite P2P.
Dual licenses like QT's work because they hold the copyright on the code which they produced themselves. QT is not a derived product. The crooks at Sveasoft have taken something which was largely produced by someone else and relicensed it. If the QOS code was implemented as a standalone module, then it can be seperated off as a an independent binary, much like the Broadcomm drivers from Linksys (you can get the GPL code to everything but the drivers).
My current cellphone is I think 3 yrs now and does what it always has been doing, and only what it should. I have no new reason to upgrade, and that's the problem if you make cellphones; once you sold eveyone one (sort of speak) you need to get them to upgrade even though the phones still work.
The big issue is battery life. New batteries have to be a particular shape which restricts the market. In Europe, if you have a contract, it is much cheaper to get a new phone than a replacement battery. Even with Li-poly/Li-Ion cells, you won't get much better than a couple of hundred charge/recharge cycles out of it.
A long time ago in the days of Digital and their internal network, we had manuals in electronic form which were marked up with something called Runoff and programs for browsing them. Hypercards existed and this used some of the concepts.
Tim used a very simple markup language too, but it was easier to extend that many of the others floating around. For me, the beauty was the URL. You could link to almost anything and for me, this was the simple but revolutionary idea. When we had the Internet, we had Gopher, FTP and whatever but this brought it altogether.
Sir Tim deserves every accolade and award that he gets now. As everyone said, the invention wasn't patented, copyrighted or whatver so everyone decided to join in and the web was born.
For the institution too, CERN is one of the world's foremost particle physics laboratory, but I don't think they are ashamed that this is probably their single most important discovery for the ordinary person.
Yes, if you landed correctly, the astronaut would go out and get two big-Macs to go.
I had the luck to also get my hands on the commented source code (it was written in Macro-11, the PDP-11 assembler). I learned a lot about how to do things very quickly, stuff which is still quite useful now. The screen on the VT11 had a long persistence but it had to be completely redrawn before the image faded. I learned about using lookup tables, no-loop multiplies (no hardware multiply on the lower end PDP-11s) and so on. It also used dirty stuff like self modifying code, but it was interesting.
Really crude, but it was developed in the early seventies. I think I saw it first in 77. I looked at the minimum spec for this Lunar lander (1GHz plus, 3D graphics card and so on). Ok, it is 3d, but so was MS Flight Simulator.
A zillion years ago, I played the moon lander on a GPS 40 which was a PDP 11/40 with a vecor graphics processor and the thing was controlled by a light pen. Not really as sophisticated as this game, but heck it ran on a 16-bit machine with about 32KB of RAM and a clock of about a Megahertz.
I was working on a ten year archive project in the late eighties. We had to keep the records of a financial institution for legal reasons, but microfilm was already considered uninteresting (you can write electronically, but you can't eaisly rescan it).
Writeable optical drives were going through multiple architectural and media changes at the time and we had major problems. Sure the CDR was settled upon later, but the issue was migrating data from one media-tyope to another before the hardware was permanently retired.
I thought that at least one version of MOPS ran native on the 1900 series, at least under George 3. However, that is the distant past and I never had access to the PLAN source code.
However the issue of nested emulators has also existed in the IBM world although the underlying machine architecture was relatively static, the operating systems weren't.
Please remember that SoftICE comes from the name of an In-Circuit Emulator which mentioned in my other post. A good one will decode the instruction stream and allow to put watch points anywhere in memory. The operation of a true ICE is totally transpernt to software. SoftICE is just a software approximation, but you could do something similar with a complete software emulator such as Bochs which models the processor as software.
It is really hard to build up a picture of a complex chips internal state, especially if there is program memory built into the CPU without external access. Reverse engineering these would normally take serious hardware like an SEM.
However, they are great for debugging "close to the metal" where you want to examine the interaction of logic signals and certainly it has helped debugging microcontrollers. The problem is that they aren't cheap.
Essentially you have a processor and a fancy logic probe linked together so that everything the processor does is monitored and if necessary intercepted. You plug it in in place of the usual processor and you can see exactly what is going on.
You tend to do this kind of thing for debugging embedded realtime processors.
This is based on a number of estimates. He is definitely rich, but how rich depnds upon his assets. Ingvar Kamprad lives in Switzerland and I understand that a lot of IKEA shares are in a holding company somewhere. Whether or not he has direct control of these shares is an interesting question, but unless he becomes a terrorism suspect, his financial affairs will remain quite opaque due to Swiss financial discretion.
For most of the system it wasn't - unfortunately some bits of the RTL and DCL did care about century presentation. It wasn't major and some apps may not have been affected at all, in any case, it wasn't a major problem to upgrade.
My bank offers a mouse based interface for the truely paranoid (even though they use a one-time transaction authentication number or TAN) in addition to the password. You can either type the TAN code or you may use a mouse to click on numbers to enter it.
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The Z1010 is cute, but it is one of the first UMTS sets with associated version 1 issues. It can do a lot but it isn't a full PDA. The Sony Ericsson P900 is a full PDA but it doesn't do UMTS.
I doubt it. At least three UK news sources are reporting this including the BBC. This is proposed to be an immunisation at least for children or at least young teens, i.e., just before most addictions start.
About right, a friend was stabbed coming out of a bar. He had a disagreement with a stupid white-trash soldier in a bar and my friend thought it politic to move elsewhere. He left the bar and as soon as he realised he was being followed he was stabbed in the side (near the kidneys). The guy was good, the weapon wasn't seen before hand and absolutely no warning of the attack. My friend survived though, long enough to report the perp to the police.
Oh, I agree 100%. The contrast range to be able to capture stars and surface is way outside that of any normal film. One of the points also made was the regolith has a very reflective property, so if you stand with your back to the sun, and look along the line of the incoming rays, the surface will appear to much brighter.
The flash thing is actually an interesting issue. The performer may be well lit but surrounding not, an averaging exposure system will get it wrong. Switching on the flash will often just set the shutter to a fixed value, say a thirtieth of a second and the photo may sometimes work. It is better to have a camera with manual override and a photographer who knows how to use it.
Actually no. However that is the way most people are taught to start photography. Astronauts have to be a lot of other things as well and messing with the settings on a Hassleblad whilst wearing thick gloves is kind of limiting.
For example, I have an HP sitting beneath my desk where I work at my client's place. It bears an XP Pro License sticker, it even runs XP Pro (not my choice), of course it is running a corporate license instead of the one that it came with.
We also have PCs running Linux. Same deal, they still have their XP license sticker. When the PCs are disposed off, someone will just ghost in XP again and sell it with operating system.
In other words, a fairly big overcount of XP licenses. Dell's program still isn't that widely known and people are concerned about their ability to resell PCs.
The risk tends to be overstated. If I had *legal* access to the XP codebase and I was still developing, I *would* look.
If they were honest (it seems they are not), they would fully release all GPL'ed code including their modifications w/o restrictions.
They may maintain their business model by offerring support or by controlling access to code that they have wholly originated. If they do not allow redistribution, they are breaking the GPL. I do agree that whilst $49 is pushing it for the source code, they can not block you from being placed on your favourite P2P.
Dual licenses like QT's work because they hold the copyright on the code which they produced themselves. QT is not a derived product. The crooks at Sveasoft have taken something which was largely produced by someone else and relicensed it. If the QOS code was implemented as a standalone module, then it can be seperated off as a an independent binary, much like the Broadcomm drivers from Linksys (you can get the GPL code to everything but the drivers).
Tim used a very simple markup language too, but it was easier to extend that many of the others floating around. For me, the beauty was the URL. You could link to almost anything and for me, this was the simple but revolutionary idea. When we had the Internet, we had Gopher, FTP and whatever but this brought it altogether.
Sir Tim deserves every accolade and award that he gets now. As everyone said, the invention wasn't patented, copyrighted or whatver so everyone decided to join in and the web was born.
For the institution too, CERN is one of the world's foremost particle physics laboratory, but I don't think they are ashamed that this is probably their single most important discovery for the ordinary person.
I had the luck to also get my hands on the commented source code (it was written in Macro-11, the PDP-11 assembler). I learned a lot about how to do things very quickly, stuff which is still quite useful now. The screen on the VT11 had a long persistence but it had to be completely redrawn before the image faded. I learned about using lookup tables, no-loop multiplies (no hardware multiply on the lower end PDP-11s) and so on. It also used dirty stuff like self modifying code, but it was interesting.
Really crude, but it was developed in the early seventies. I think I saw it first in 77. I looked at the minimum spec for this Lunar lander (1GHz plus, 3D graphics card and so on). Ok, it is 3d, but so was MS Flight Simulator.
A zillion years ago, I played the moon lander on a GPS 40 which was a PDP 11/40 with a vecor graphics processor and the thing was controlled by a light pen. Not really as sophisticated as this game, but heck it ran on a 16-bit machine with about 32KB of RAM and a clock of about a Megahertz.
Writeable optical drives were going through multiple architectural and media changes at the time and we had major problems. Sure the CDR was settled upon later, but the issue was migrating data from one media-tyope to another before the hardware was permanently retired.
However the issue of nested emulators has also existed in the IBM world although the underlying machine architecture was relatively static, the operating systems weren't.
Please remember that SoftICE comes from the name of an In-Circuit Emulator which mentioned in my other post. A good one will decode the instruction stream and allow to put watch points anywhere in memory. The operation of a true ICE is totally transpernt to software. SoftICE is just a software approximation, but you could do something similar with a complete software emulator such as Bochs which models the processor as software.
However, they are great for debugging "close to the metal" where you want to examine the interaction of logic signals and certainly it has helped debugging microcontrollers. The problem is that they aren't cheap.
You tend to do this kind of thing for debugging embedded realtime processors.
This is based on a number of estimates. He is definitely rich, but how rich depnds upon his assets. Ingvar Kamprad lives in Switzerland and I understand that a lot of IKEA shares are in a holding company somewhere. Whether or not he has direct control of these shares is an interesting question, but unless he becomes a terrorism suspect, his financial affairs will remain quite opaque due to Swiss financial discretion.
For most of the system it wasn't - unfortunately some bits of the RTL and DCL did care about century presentation. It wasn't major and some apps may not have been affected at all, in any case, it wasn't a major problem to upgrade.
A mouse is harder to track because if you use an external logger, it would be a problem to work out where the mouse is relative to the window.
My bank offers a mouse based interface for the truely paranoid (even though they use a one-time transaction authentication number or TAN) in addition to the password. You can either type the TAN code or you may use a mouse to click on numbers to enter it.